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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It is Friday, March 8th. There is only one thing driving the day.

And that is why I have my homies and Playbook co-authors, Rachel Bade and Ryan Lizzie. You got all three of us.

We are all here to talk about last night's State of the Union.

Ryan and Rachel, hello, the whole team's together.

Good morning.

It's a party.

It's a party.

It's something.

Now, you know, we watched President Biden's speech 66 minutes.

You know, we talked to his aides.

We talked to his chief of staff this week.

And everything they told us was that he was going to be fiery, that the expectations they knew were raised.

Do you guys think that they met and that President Biden met what they set out to do.

Ryan, I'm going to start with you.

Yeah, I think so.

I mean, a couple of things.

One, because so much of the conversation has been driven by doubts about Biden

that sort of got out of hand with a sort of exaggerated caricatured view of Biden as this feeble, cognitively impaired

old man. And so the bar was really, really lowered, I think, in some ways for him. So it was a little

bit easier for him to clear. If he had made some significant mistake last night.

I think that that's all we'd be talking about. And, you know, the whole Biden theory of this election

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